Never mind. Found it. You have to hit a button on the task bar that I had long since removed.

The other way is ctrl+windowslogo+tab.

It'd be nice if that could be made the default behavior for alt+tab. Wonder if there's a hack to do that.

For background, I'm The Linux And Mac person at a residence hall with about 600 people. About two years ago, we put in new DHCP servers along with a network upgrade. These are my babies, as they run ISC DHCPD on debian stable, the most standard of standard dhcp servers.

For three years, these dhcp servers have run perfectly. They actually run with a config file mainly copied from an even older deployment of isc's dhcpd.

Well, three days ago, the inevitable happened. Our first vista laptop showed up, and it wasn't working. No surprise, our network access control system hasn't been upgraded for vista compatibility, but we had workarounds in place, yada yada yada... This would have been fine except that the damn thing wouldn't get an IP address. Hmmm. Ok, must be this laptop. Nope, the next day, a new vista laptop, same problem. The server was seeing a perfect Discover/Offer/Request/Ack exchange. The laptop was not getting an IP address.

This morning we bought a copy of vista and went to town on the registry, to no avail.

What was the problem?
Code:

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    option routers 128.32.253.1, 128.32.253.1, 128.32.253.1;

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Some script, back in the day, which generated this 3000 line long dhcpd config file, repeated the router three times. Why? The person who knows has long since moved on, and I'm of the if it ain't broke don't fix it mentality, so I'd never worried about it. This has worked for years with Windows 98, windows ME, windows 2k, windows 2k3, windows XP, linuxes of all varieties, mac OS 9, Mac OSX, freebsd, and probably more, all without so much as a hiccup.

Problem solved, crisis averted, as a coworker told me, I "get a gold star on my paycheck this month", but damn if I'd rather if things that used to work continued to work.

Matthew

It wouldn't get an IP address or it didn't set up the default router properly? I suppose either is possible, though the mantra of "be liberal in what you accept" was certainly not carried out by Microsoft here.

The networking stack was something MS rewrote in Vista, so makes sense that this just cropped up now.

Makes me wonder if they fixed a complaint I had with networking in XP. With OS X, I can tell my DHCP server to assign the same IP to both the wireless and wired interfaces. And if I start a file copy when wireless to a network share, I can plug into ethernet and it switches interfaces over to it with no interruption. XP would try to get IP addresses on both interfaces, and fail on the second connected interface. So if I started wired, the wireless wouldn't work until I manually disabled and reenabled it. If I was on wireless and plugged in, the wired interface would never get an IP.

Ok, so it looks like Windows - Tab and Ctrl - Windows - Tab do the effect slightly differently.

Windows - Tab, the windows key has to be held down, when released it picks the window on top. Tab cycles through them.

Ctrl - Windows - Tab - Once pressed, windows and ctrl can be released, tab cycles, and enter selects. Either mode also allows the scroll wheel to be used to move through, and the mouse to select.

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and I am sure all the Macoligists already have something better

Exposé, implemented in OS X 2.5 years ago. It was one thing I was hoping Microsoft would actually rip off. http://youtube.com/watch?v=2XFMSSrpTqg is a good demo of it in the 3 modes it has. The binding can be changes to any key, any mouse button, or screen corners. And the buttons are context sensitive. Tap the key and let go, and the mode locks in till you select a window. Hold the key down, and the mode goes away when the key is released. One big use of it is the desktop mode, where you need to grab a file to attach to an e-mail. Hit the desktop key, grab and hold the file, then release the key and drop the file.

I've been fooling around last week with beryl on ubuntu.
Didn't think i would like it this much, normally i have all desktop effects turned off.
They ripped off expose too

Xen demo turning in XGL demo (and a little vista bashing):
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2849258302734205565

Just a simple video showing off most functions of beryl:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3p8IBNNd88

That Bill Gates doesn't seem very keen for me to get my free Vista upgrade. Of course, I can see his point: We all have those days when we know it's going to be crap and we don't want to stick our head out from under the covers - he'll be there in Seattle putting off to the last letting a grumpy old man like me, who has moaned about every Windows product, getting my hands on the latest.
End of January I sent off my Acer invoice to Modus in Holland attached to an email: End of February they emailed me to say it had been verified; Mid March they emailed me to say it was being shipped and I should have it within 3 weeks(3 Weeks!!!) and to email if I hadn't got it by May 1. Now I may be a grumpy old man, but I don't think that's service.
I only wanted it to see what all the fuss was about!

Don't know, i never tried compiz. I'm running the svn version of beryl, and it's pretty crash free now. I must admit i am logged into windows xp more lately.

I used these guides for installing:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=263851
http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=291464&highlight=beryl+fglrx
http://wiki.beryl-project.org/wiki/General_Options

Still on edgy (gnome).
Oh, and it works pretty good on my laptop too with some settings off/low (ibm a31p)

Thanks for that, my screen has just ingested half a glass of very acceptable Rioja!

I've taken the plunge and ordered Vista - it should be here today. Going to run it dual-boot with XP until I'm really happy with it...

EDIT: Installing....

Well installation was painless enough once I had located the drivers for my RAID/SATA controller.

Installed it on a fresh hard drive but for some reason it didn't detect my existing XP install so I've had to inform it of that. Just trying to get it triple-bootable into kumbutu as well now...